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Wordless, or rather, Costless, Wednesday

An intriguing press release has come my way from Sarah Palmer at Mortons Media http://www.mortonsmedia, a well known UK publishing house. The release introduces a new railway modelling magazine set for release at Warley in a few weeks time. No … Continue reading

Posted in 2016, Bachmann, blog, blogger, Branch Line, British Rail, DCC, dcc sound, Eastern Region, Exhibition, finescale, flying scotsman, Great Western, HO, hobbies, Hornby, Inspiration, Kalmbach, Layout, life, LMS, LNER, magazine, media, Midland Region, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Model Railway Journal, modeling, Modelling, Narrow Gauge, Nevard, O Gauge, o scale, OO Gauge, Oxford rail, Railex, Rapido Trains, research, review, Scottish Region, social media, Southern Region, toy train, toytrainset, train set, trainset, Uncategorized, Western Region, wordless wednesday | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

Wordless Wednesday (wonderful wagons)

  

Posted in 2016, Airfix, Bachmann, blogger, Branch Line, British Rail, Eastern Region, finescale, flying scotsman, Great Western, HO, hobbies, Hornby, humour, Layout, LMS, LNER, media, Midland Region, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Model Railway Journal, modeling, Modelling, Modelu, Nevard, O Gauge, o scale, OO Gauge, Oxford rail, Rapido Trains, Scottish Region, social media, Southern Region, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train set, trainset, Uncategorized, wagon, Western Region, wordless wednesday | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Throwback Thursday, its all over now …

Well a couple of years ago I wrote that it’s all over now, Albion Yard doing its final show at Warley 2013, or that was the plan. https://albionyard.wordpress.com/2013/11/29/its-all-over-now/ However one show which I’d been asked to do but never managed … Continue reading

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R3325 Hornby J50 Review

Announced in December 2014 and delivered December 2015, the OO gauge, 4mm scale, J50 from Hornby has arrived. The example reviewed here is the early BR Crest J50/4 catalogue number R3325. Packaged in the typical outer sleeve and cardboard inner … Continue reading

Posted in blog, DCC, dcc sound, Eastern Region, hobbies, Hornby, Layout, LNER, magazine, media, Midland Region, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Model Railway Journal, modeling, Modelling, Nevard, OO Gauge, r3324, R3325, r3326, research, review, Scottish Region, shopping, social media, toy train, toytrainset, train set, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 6 Comments

The Peninsula Club

Is that where he’s been, The Peninsula Club? Low cut dresses, heels and G&T’s by the bucket load. That’s enough about what I do at the weekend though. The Peninsula. In the UK a pretty rare piece of layout design, … Continue reading

Posted in blog, British Rail, DCC, dcc sound, Exhibition, hobbies, Hornby, laramie, Layout, life, Manchester, Midland Region, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Model Railway Journal, modeling, Modelling, Nevard, OO Gauge, research, Scottish Region, shelfie, toy train, toytrainset, train set, Uncategorized, Western Region | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Forest of Dean Lines Book review

Forest of Dean Lines & the Severn Bridge Price £30.00 ISBN 13: 9781899889 98 3  http://lightmoor.co.uk   This is Volume 2 of British Railway History in Colour from Lightmoor Press. Volume 1 dealt with the Wye Valley lines and north … Continue reading

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200 Not Out …

In the way that odd or interesting numbers sometimes appear on the car dashboard, an interesting one has appeared on the dashboard here on’t blog. That number is two hundred thousand. The number of hits the blog has achieved since … Continue reading

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Wordless Wednesday 64xx 31-637

Posted in Bachmann, blog, Branch Line, DCC, dcc sound, Great Western, hobbies, Hornby, media, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Model Railway Journal, modeling, Modelling, OO Gauge, social media, toy train, toytrainset, train set, Western Region, wordless wednesday | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

New Life ..

You could say that the hobby at the moment is better than its ever been, new companies and new products and techniques than we have seen before. We can pick and choose what we want, because there is so much … Continue reading

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Wordless Wednesday 5201

Double click images for bigguns…

Posted in blog, DCC, dcc sound, Great Western, hobbies, Hornby, Kalmbach, Layout, media, Midland Region, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Model Railway Journal, modeling, Modelling, Nevard, OO Gauge, Photography, social media, toy train, toytrainset, train set, Uncategorized, Western Region, wordless wednesday | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment